Our team is comprised of a bunch of GearHeads who like to hang out at the racetrack on the weekends. We have racers, autocrossers, workers, and crew...all dedicated to making a weekend at the track a fun and safe event.

The original idea for Panic Motorsports was, as the story goes, drawn up on a bar napkin about 20 years ago by Steve and a few gearhead friends. Panic became more than just an idea in 2000 when Steve met Becca at an event she was hosting to train new Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Course Marshals. Becca's dad is a former rally driver, and she grew up around sports car racing, so when Steve told her about Panic and how they wanted to put something together, Becca helped to organize the team. Soon there was a logo, then a web site, then T-shirts, and well, the list goes on.

Panic quite simply started as a group of friends who competed in autocross (SCCA Solo 2) and worked club races on the weekend. By 2002, Panic was well known across the Southeast and often called upon to staff races from Road Atlanta to Daytona. 2002 was also the year Steve and Becca built their first Spec Miata, got married, and Steve attended drivers' school at Roebling Road Raceway; the start of a very successful club racing career.

Steve had always wanted to own his own business, and after more than 15 years in the auto parts industry, he took a leap of faith and opened Panic Motorsports, LLC in September 2006. Panic's original focus was salvage Miata parts to feed the growing Spec Miata class; keeping in mind a goal to move into race prep and car builds. With his racing and parts contacts, Steve's salvage business soon outgrew the garage behind the Bertoks' home and into the first of two shops. In the past ten years, we've added customers, friends, staff, and purchased a large facility, Panic's current location in West Columbia, SC, where we currently have three aspects to the business:

Panic clients and crew attend more than 30 race weekends per year and have brought home many race wins and championships. Panic has dominated the Southeast's endurance racing series with five wins in the Spec Miata class of the 13 Hour Charge of the Headlight Brigade at Virginia International Raceway, as well as multiple Endurance Championship Racing (ECR) and Carolina Cup Pro Series (CCPS) events.